Cloud Computing and QoS Compatibility for Business Video Conferencing

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The widespread adoption of cloud computing in business-critical applications such as storage and CRM has set the stage for conquering another, video conferencing cloud computing offers compelling, fundamental advantages in this product category: lower cost, automated fail-over, and much easier to scale versus video-specific routers, multipoint control units (MCUs) and other infrastructure hardware solutions.  But as experienced IT managers know, there’s more to video conferencing than meets … [Read more...]

Enterprise vs. commodity class data center strategies

DCF 1.0

The virtualized and multi-tenanted data center is at the heart of cloud computing and every cloud-based service. All the applications and services we retrieve or consume in the Cloud, eventually reside in some data center - presumably built according to cloud criteria, i.e. loosely-coupled, shared, virtualized resources, auto-provisioning, auto-scaling, elasticity and so on. The primary difference between traditional corporate data center and cloud computing data center is in scalability and … [Read more...]

Networking technologies in Cloud Computing

Networking

Recently, I participated in a research study under the auspices of Eurescom, working with research colleagues from Telenor, PT Inovacao (Portugal Telecom - Innovation) and Orange Labs (France Telecom). Our objective was to analyse Cloud Computing as both a technology concept and service delivery model, especially from its networking perspective, and its implications for telcos in general. We studied the current and promising networking technologies used in the Cloud, internally and externally, … [Read more...]